And anyone who voted Stephanie Meyer are officially Twitards who know nothing about the art of literary writing. In fact I can't believe the OP actually included her.
QFT. Although I would settle for anyone NOT named Stephenie Meyer. Twilight was absolutely horrible. It took all established vampire canon, said "Screw this, I'm coming up with some new crap" and threw the vampire canon into a fire.
I was going to make some sort of sarcastic remark about how Stephenie Meyer trying for something different instead of relying on established ideas is such a horrible idea, but instead I have something else to say.
To the Bram Stoker fans, yes, his vampires are bad ass, but he wasn't the first fictionalized vampire. I'm sure some of you know that. There was a vampire serial before that called Varney the Vampire (seriously). it was written about forty-five to fifty years before Dracula. It was one of the inspirations for Dracula, besides Vlad Tepes, of course.
Getting back to canon, the traits that Varney shows in the series are pretty similar to some modern ideas in vampire literature, including the Twilight Saga. There's the ability to go out in sunlight, the sometimes self loathing of being a vampire, no reaction to crosses, or garlic. They have superhuman strength and the ability to hypnotize or put someone in to a trance.
For the record, I don't get the sparkling bit either. But I look past it and enjoy the story. Though, she does use it for a key part in the second book, which was actually pretty good.
Her style of vampire is not the only kind I like though. Christopher Golden has probably my favorite take on vampires. Check out his Saints and Shadows series, it's really good. I also enjoy Anne Rice, Joss Whedon, and all different kinds of vampires inventions. It's always interesting to see a new take on an old archetype.
Those of you who do not like Twilight can look at it this way perhaps. The young fangirls, who I agree can be extremely annoying and can take away from liking the books after a while, will hopefully want to read more about vampires and will pick of Dracula, they'll pick up 'Salem's Lot, or any other vampire novel, and learn from it, and not be that annoy little fangirl anymore.
Sorry, didn't mean to rant there.
Anyway, my answers to who wrote the coolest vampires is somewhere in that mess of a post.
EDIT: Completely forgot to include Charlaine Harris.
and shape shifters, faeries, and demons
is really awesome. The vampires from 30 Days Of Night as well, those were scary ass vampires. They weren't mindless killing machines, which is what made them truly terrifying.
Okay, last post. I loved 'Salem's Lot. I've been reading a lot of Stephen King because my dad owns practically all of them, and I really enjoyed it. I agree with the giant rant, Twilight did take a different approach to vampires, it just didn't make much sense and I honestly don't understand why so many people read it. Oh well.
Joss Whedon, well based purely on vampire he might not win but he does have the coolest story I've seen about vampires. Also the romance is so much better than twilight (how can a teenage girl not love vampire romance).
Joss Whedon, well based purely on vampire he might not win but he does have the coolest story I've seen about vampires. Also the romance is so much better than twilight (how can a teenage girl not love vampire romance).
Those of you who do not like Twilight can look at it this way perhaps. The young fangirls, who I agree can be extremely annoying and can take away from liking the books after a while, will hopefully want to read more about vampires and will pick of Dracula, they'll pick up 'Salem's Lot, or any other vampire novel, and learn from it, and not be that annoy little fangirl anymore.
First of all, not gonna happen. Tweens who grab "Twilight" are looking for soft core nookie with a metrosexual and would chuck all the vampire stuff if they could.
They're not the worst though.
The older people with their longing for "The Right Man" are lusting after a person who is the carbon copy of the Lothario's that line the nightclubs waiting for their next victim.
"But this one will be real..." they say, before getting as emotionally castrated as the guys looking to find a real princess.
Twilight books are just chocolate of the mind, and it's not even good chocolate. Just the scrapings left behind from Meyer's bulimia. It's the female equivalent of "Reader's Wives", yet it's held aloft as Shakespear.
A mix between Jim Butcher in Dresden Files, Joss Whedon in Buffy/Angel, and Ethan Skemp and the other awesome writers over at White Wolf Games for Vampire: The Requiem!
Bram certainly did a good job of popularizing them, though the idea of someone not getting over their wife after 3 brides and a century just seems so... Clingy. It's like Vlad Topes was some socially inept teen who can't get over that girl he sat behind in high school.
The movie with Keanu Reeves. I had heard somewhere that it was basically a the novel but in movie form and with Reeves, so I figured the book was also about him going after some lass because she reminded him of his wife... Was I misinformed? Guess I'd best edit that post either way.
Yeah, in the book, Dracula didn't have any humanizing characteristics. He was basically a monster terrorizing the protagonists for fun. I've heard that most adaptations tried to make him more sympathetic for some reason.
I knew they tried it in most adaptations, and always made him seem pretty emo, case and point Van Helsing. Well, thanks for correcting me, now if you'll excuse me I've just noticed that "Dungeons and Dragons: the Soda" in latest content and I just have to see this.
I like the old folklore-y vampires that where basically just monsters. Dracula was a bit fruity for my taste, though i did enjoy reading Stoker's novel. Ending was a bit abrupt but it was still pretty interesting.
I was with you all the way until the 'quite possibly' part. Point me to a series with better voice acting than Legacy of Kain and I will show you filthy lies!
Seriously though it's not just the voice acting but the dialog itself that makes it so great - I believe one reviewer likened the character interactions to "watching dueling English Majors", and there's simply no way a fellow with my deep and abiding love of the English language can think that's anything other than completely awesome.
Whoever said Christoph from Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption, were you aware he also shows up in several of the Clan Novels? (I think Ventrue was the first appearance, and he shows up quite a bit in Brujah, given that's his clan and all.)
Starke said:
Gildan Bladeborn said:
Personally I'm partial to the vampires from White Wolf's original World of Darkness. Not vampires created by people who actually play that game, as they tend to trend along the ridiculous angst-filled "Anne Rice" template, but the stuff from the background itself or the novels - even the 'good guys' are inhuman monsters, and the bad ones... well they're the stuff that nightmares would have in a nightmare.
It's always annoyed me that they did that, as I just can't get into their newer setting at all. The old World of Darkness was just better - and they killed it!
Oh well, we still got a kickass video-game out of it even after it had technically already been retired (Bloodlines is, as others have noted, all kinds of awesome - especially the bits with Smilin' Jack).
Also, I've heard that Twilight actually can't die in a fire, for the cleansing flames simply reject the horrid monstrosity. 'Tis terribly disappointing.
And anyone who voted Stephanie Meyer are officially Twitards who know nothing about the art of literary writing. In fact I can't believe the OP actually included her.
I'm sorry, okay? I just did it as a joke, and to avoid the appearance of unfairness. I had no idea it would get any non-sarcastic votes.
Hotfoottfox said:
Okay, last post. I loved 'Salem's Lot. I've been reading a lot of Stephen King because my dad owns practically all of them, and I really enjoyed it. I agree with the giant rant, Twilight did take a different approach to vampires, it just didn't make much sense and I honestly don't understand why so many people read it. Oh well.
Have any of you guys actually read Dracula? Any excitement that could've possibly been derived from that story was sucked out completely and utterly by the fact that it was written in journal format. Good lord it was a slow, boring story, and not really supposed to be horrific so much as exciting and new.
If that book scared you, then you better not turn out your lights at night or you might just have to buy a new wardrobe.
I really appreciate Anne Rice's romantic spin on vampirism, but it's a little too.... gay for me.
As far as coolness factor goes though? Legacy of Kain all the way. That shit was bad ASS!
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